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Revision as of 16:35, 5 September 2017
FarmShare is Stanford’s community computing environment. It is intended for use in coursework and unsponsored research; users participating in sponsored research should investigate the Sherlock service, instead. FarmShare is not approved for use with high-risk data, including protected health information and personally identifiable information.
For a description of the current environment, see FarmShare 2. More information can be found in the service documentation.
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System Status
FarmShare is currently fully operational. The next maintenance period is scheduled for September 21, 2017, from 8am–5pm.
Getting Started
Any user with a full-service SUNet ID can access FarmShare.
Connecting
Do not connect to farm.stanford.edu. While there is such a system, it is not part of the FarmShare service.
Log into rice.stanford.edu. Authentication is by SUNet ID and password (or GSSAPI), and two-step authentication is required.
ssh sunetid@rice.stanford.edu
SSH host keys and fingerprints are available for verification.
For light-duty, interactive work (e.g., e-mail, web browsing and development, file editing, and AFS access or file transfers), log into cardinal.stanford.edu, instead.
ssh sunetid@cardinal.stanford.edu
cardinal systems should not be used for long-running or compute- and/or memory-intensive work.
For more information, see Getting Connected and Advanced Connection Options.
User Guide
The User Guide has information regarding storage, file-transfer, and cluster configuration. See the FAQ for common issues, and tips and tricks.
Support
SRCC staff can be reached by e-mail at: srcc-support@stanford.edu. When reporting a problem, please let us know that you're running on FarmShare and report any relevant details, including the full text of any error message you're receiving, and the job ID and contents of your batch script (if applicable).
Course Instructors
If you are a course instructor using FarmShare for classwork and have any special requests or requirements please contact SRCC at least 30 days before the start of the academic quarter in which the class will be held. We try to accommodate reasonable requests but staff time is limited.
Discussion List
Subscribe to the community discussion list, farmshare-discuss, post questions and concerns to: farmshare-discuss@lists.stanford.edu, or browse the archives.
Office Hours
SRCC participates in SMACC office hours, held weekly in the basement of Huang Engineering Center, near the ICME offices.
SMACC office hours are not held during the Summer Quarter, but will resume in Autumn.
SSDS Consulting
The SSDS group supports statistical software, including R, Stata, and SAS. They are located in the Velma Denning Room in the Bing Wing of Green Library and hold office hours Monday–Thursday, 2–5 PM, starting in the second week of each quarter and ending the last week of classes.
SSDS office hours are not held during the Summer Quarter, but will resume in Autumn.
Software
A variety of useful software, including some popular commercial software, is provided as part of the FarmShare environment. If something is missing, or a particular application, library, or utility needs updating, please let us know. We try to accommodate reasonable requests but staff time is limited.
For more information, see Software.
Packaged Software
FarmShare systems run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and most software is sourced from standard repositories.
Modules and Licensed Software
Some software, including all licensed software, is built and/or installed manually and organized using the Lmod environment module system.
module help module avail module load
User-installed Software
New or updated software can often be built and/or installed by users in their own home directories, and local package managers like Linuxbrew and Spack can help. Local package managers are also available for many programming languages, and some provide tools for managing entire local programming environments (e.g., pip, virtualenv, and Conda for Python, local::lib and Perlbrew for Perl, and Luarocks for Lua.
Containers
Singularity containers are supported, but bootstrapping an image requires root access, so you'll need to create your containers elsewhere and copy them to FarmShare to run.
The legacy environment will be retired on Wednesday, December 20, 2017. FarmShare 2 should be used for all new work.
Connecting
Log into corn.stanford.edu. Authentication is by SUNet ID and password (or GSSAPI), and two-step authentication is required.
ssh sunetid@corn.stanford.edu
For work requiring access to a GPU, log into rye.stanford.edu, instead.
ssh sunetid@rye.stanford.edu
More information is available in the legacy service documentation.
